Practicing Summary and Paraphrase

In this post I will be taking a significant portion of the text I am analyzing and put it into my own phrase highlighting the key point in the text. After I paraphrase the quote I will be summarizing it into one sentence.

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Original Source

"I hold degrees in physics and have spent a lot of time learning and teaching quantum mechanics. Nonphysicists seem to have the impression that quantum physics is really esoteric, with those who study it spending their time debating the nature of reality. In truth, most of a quantum mechanics class is lots and lots of math, in the service of using a particle’s quantum state—the bundle of physical properties such as position, energy, spin, and the like—to describe the outcomes of experiments."

My Paraphrase of the Original Source

Matthew Francis talks about how he taught quantum mechanics for a long time. He thinks normal people think all quantum mechanics is, is contemplating the universe. However, for Francis, experiments in quantum mechanics usually take on the structure of lots of math and then trying the experiment to see if that is how it turned out.

My Summary of the Original Source

In the quote above, Matthew Francis give his own experiences with teaching and learning quantum mechanics and how it differs from the public view.